Everything Avengers: Infinity War Fixes About The MCU

8. Shoe-Horning In Characters

When it was first announced that Infinity War was going to have so many characters, the initial excitement was only tempered by the issues the directors would inevitably have with balance. Surely, there was no way they could legitimately share out screentime - even almost three hours of it - between something like 76 characters?

Even more worryingly, characters in the past had felt shoe-horned in without development - as in Age Of Ultron, Spider-Man: Homecoming and to a lesser extent in Civil War - in the interest of getting reactions from fans or vaguely serving the story. But that somehow wasn't the case here, partly because the Russos were brave enough to leave some characters out.

Sure, it would have been nice to see Hakweye, Ant-Man, Korg, Miek, Valkyrie and Nova Prime and her fellow Xandarians, but they simply wouldn't have had the space to be really developed. Leaving them out was the equivalent of the film-makers killing their darlings and it worked well.